The new Peacock series “M.I.A” could be called “Miami Vice: The Reversal.” This nine-episode revenge saga is equal parts crime drama and nighttime soap about the clash between two families and the ruin that follows.
Damian McCarthy’s “Hokum,” a wonderfully well-crafted work of Irish folk horror, is a genre film in an almost classical sense. Much like his petrifying prior features, “Oddity” and “Caveat,” it’s built around a confined, potentially
Hokum is the latest horror film from director Damian McCarthy, who just a few years ago gave us the supernatural horror film Oddity, and before that, the film Caveat. Oddity is really what put McCarthy
In 2021, Housemarque and Sony Interactive Entertainment released one of the best games of the current generation, a punishingly addictive experience called “Returnal.” Combining the brutality of a Soulslike game with the unpredictability of the
Building on the foundation laid by ESPN’s excellent “30 for 30” series, Netflix launched its own franchise of films about unusual sports stories in 2021 under the banner “Untold.” With an intent to tell unique
Younger viewers might not realize this, but seeing videos of people kicking the bucket was not such a common occurrence once upon a time. Nowadays you could just be scrolling Twitter or TikTok and BAM,
Hey, everyone. This is a blog post I had hoped I would never have to write, and it’s surreal, bordering on unreality, that I’ve sat down to put these words together at all. I lost
Born and raised in Urbana-Champaign, Roger Ebert left his mark everywhere—as a sportswriter for The News-Gazette when he was 15, at Urbana High School as Senior Class President and co-editor of The Echo student newspaper,
We’ve all done things we aren’t proud of. Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat of regret over all that money I took from that plane a couple decades ago. But what about the
The Chicago Film Critics Association announces the line-up for the 13th Chicago Critics Film Festival, running from May 1-7, 2026 at the historic Music Box Theatre. A blend of new and familiar voices, this year’s